Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-30
4 CLASH OF RACES.
A Negro Constable Matagorda
County Attempts to Arrest Awhile
Man and is Shot Down.
The Blacks Flock In From Adjoining
Counties I'D the Whites Send to
Brez0ria for Assistance.
A Collision Said 90 Have Occurred Between
the Racss-Rio: Retgns Supreme-Tho
Raagers Ordered to the scene.
AN APPEAL. FOR AID.


Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Sept. 26-For the time
being the examination of applications for
position in the executive Office has been
dropped on account OF sensational reports
wired Governor Ross from Brez3ria. The
blowing dispatch YVES received by Gov
e7nor Ross:
RRAzORTA, TN. Sept. IS, 1857.
Governor Ross:
a light occurred to-day between negroes
and whites in the southeast corner OF
Matagorda county, near the line OF Bra
ZOria. The negroes are collecting from
8 tj0inirg counties, ana there are indica-
lions of
a GENERAL UPRISING.
Upon the suggestion of tn first citizens,
call on you for military assistance.
Ii you dispatch TO Houston for companies
it Will be the quickest. Send them by
rail to Columbia. Order special train.
Signed NJ. j. HICKEY,
sheriff CT Brazoria County.
ON receipt Of the above the Governor
sent the following:
Captain +. \. Reichardt, Houston, Tex:
Take twenty men ana sufficient smmu-
milton and go 10 Columbia as quickly as
possible and report 10 NJ. j. Hickey,
Sheriff of Brszorla county; also call
on me
FOR MILITARY AID
to suppress the expected trouble between
the whites and blacks. Have the balance
f your company ready TO follow il their
presence should be necessary. Notify
Captain Drefrese to hold his company in
rea illness to follow If ordered. Get q
special traia and report on your arrival
1t Columbia.
CSjsned.) Il. S. Ross,
Governor and Commender i'll Chief.
R-ichardy, above ment oned, is Captain
of the famous Houston Light Quad.
THE TRIO rs DELAYED.
Social to the Gazette
HOUSTON, Ten, Sept. 2G.-F. A. Reich
ardl received telegram this mo ming
from Governor Ross, ordering him to
take the Light Guards to Columbia and
report to the Sheriff Of BrsZoria. The
ordering out OF this company is caused
! by trouble between the blacks end whites
IN the northeast part OF Matagorda county
about thirty miles west OF Columbia. The
trouble originated as follows: A negro
constable named Jerry Messena under
/ took TO srrest white man named Mich
OILS for refusing to work the road
n .c1ols excused himself for few min
uges TO get ready to accompany the oil
Ger, and when he returned it was with
A DOURLE-BARRELED SHOTGUN,
watch Nichols is supposed to have
u Led with fatal effect on tn
negro. At any rate the colere
C Unstable Disappeared somewhat mystic
ouslv and when found later it YVES wit
a bullet hole through his head and hi
body lying at the mouth of Caney creek
When the negro element heard of this th
excitement ran high and they threatene
t hang Nichols and another man name
Hawkins as suspicion rested on them
Tae whites learning the circum
auces soon organized into an arme
b dy aud went 10 the rescue. Sheri
Wadsworth OF Matsgorda county sen
curriers' to Sherifs Jones Of Whsrto
apd Hickey of BrsLoria, who left at ono
with armed posses for